Cyber Matters: Heed the Window of Opportunity

By

Rob Sloan, cybersecurity research director, WSJ Pro

Updated May 25, 2018 1:00 pm ET

Companies regularly fail to patch vulnerabilities that could lead to devastating compromises, despite it being a key part of effective cyber hygiene. A single unpatched vulnerability can put the security of an entire network at risk and is the root cause of the majority of cybersecurity incidents.

So far this year, over 6,400 vulnerabilities among all types of software, including business applications that run on millions of corporate machines, have been publicly disclosed, roughly in line with the 6,019 disclosed during the...